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...sonnets of John Donne, it becomes clear that Conley’s remarkable creative and analytic talent lies in his ability to illuminate the forms he studies in a rich and challenging way. He brings new light to the ways in which we examine the world, both in academia and in everyday life. Ultimately for Conley, the studies of cinema, poetry, philosophy, literature, are all an exercise in mapmaking: “Humanities are the study of where we situate ourselves in relation to the world. The whole issue of what we are becomes a function of where...
...transformed into the famously secular research university we know today. Rather, the movement gathered momentum gradually, propelled by intellectual leaders who, while using Christianity as an implicit foundation, believed above all in the advancement of scientific and academic knowledge.For the Puritans who founded the College, separating God from academia was unthinkable. “The whole notion of a secular entity was unheard of,” says Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes.Indeed, Harvard’s “Rules and Precepts” of 1646 hold that “the maine...
...unexpected intersection.“I found people who were bright and pious,” Gomes says. “I’d thought those were water-tight compartments.”But as his own career would later show, the worlds of spirituality and academia are not mutually exclusive, a revelation that many continue to discover at HDS.THE PROGRAMAlmost 40 years have passed since Gomes received his degree, and the Master of Divinity program continues to bridge the religious/secular divide, crossing a boundary that is often seen as impenetrable at other schools.The 24 half-course MDiv program...
While these literary observations are apt, academia separates the Comparative Literature department from the Anthropology department for a reason; the aforementioned writers and characters were obviously influenced by their societies, ones that were structured not to allow women to succeed as independent and confident leaders. Even the most progressive and non-sexist writers of the 8th century B.C. could not have imagined women even having the possibility of asserting themselves in the household, on the battlefield, or wherever...
...that Lewis, Kirby, Summers, and many others in the university administration have almost departed, and as the curricular review moves (hopefully) towards implementation, the College would be well served by taking a hard look at its attitude toward extracurricular activities. Efforts to remove extracurriculars from academia, experience shows, are non-starters; a far more achievable and positive goal would be to put a little more of academia into extracurriculars. Rather than seeing the two as oppositional, with X hours going to one or the other, we should encourage the many ways in which they can be complementary...